Many areas of science have adopted nomenclature rules that facilitate research and communication. In contrast, ecological terminology is constantly redefined across disciplines, plagued with synonymy...

Natural science collections are accepted globally as critical research assets. A total of 71 zoological collections in South Africa, consisting of over 15 million specimens housed at 22 institutions...

The need of a global network for biodiversity information has been recognized as the supporting mechanism not only for the science community but also for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)...

As the importance of biodiversity has been recognized, researchers, governmental of fi cers, and people attracted by biodiversity have collected enormous amounts of biodiversity data for many uses (e...

It is in the interest of botanists concerned with plant conservation to make sure that fungi are also conserved. Fungal conservation has not flourished and does not flourish in the shadow of botany....